Equip vs Clothe - What's the difference?
equip | clothe |
To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.
To dress up; to array; accouter.
To prepare (someone) with a skill
To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 21
* Goldsmith
(figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.
* Watts
* J. Dyer
* Milton
In lang=en terms the difference between equip and clothe
is that equip is to prepare (someone) with a skill while clothe is to adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.As verbs the difference between equip and clothe
is that equip is to furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc; -- said especially of ships and of troops dryden while clothe is to adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.equip
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
- Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.
- The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.
Anagrams
* (l), ----clothe
English
Verb
- to feed and clothe''' a family; to '''clothe oneself extravagantly
- Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you.
- Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- The naked every day he clad , / When he put on his clothes.
- to clothe somebody with authority or power
- language in which they can clothe their thoughts
- His sides are clothed with waving wood.
- words clothed in reason's garb